DLIST COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY

The goals of this policy are to define the purpose of the collection, to provide guidelines to authors or any other registered users for the preservation of collection consistency, to list categories of materials to be held, to define standards of accessing DLIST collection, and to enforce observance of the intellectual property and copyright law regulations during the archiving process.

DLIST Goals

The Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST) is a repository of electronic resources within the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). The primary objective of DLIST is to create a web-accessible, open, digital repository for Library and Information Science and Information Technology. An attempt is made to cover all aspects within these two fields. DLIST strives to serve as the venue of an LIS global scholarly communication consortium.

Philosophy

DLIST recognizes the importance of continuous, lifelong improvement of information literacy and information technology skills for information professionals. By integrating the outputs of both research and teaching activities, DLIST collects, organizes, and makes widely accessible information necessary for the acquisition and constant updating of these skills. The unique combination of research, teaching, and learning materials makes DLIST unique among electronic repositories. DLIST attempts to reach informational professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, researchers, and teaching faculty from all over the world. DLIST endeavors to cover topics of interests for all kinds of libraries, including public, academic, school, and information centers. DLIST supports the principles set forth in the Library Bill of Rights. However, DLIST strongly encourages authors and other registered users to submit documents on LIS and IT-related topics that have the copyright owners’ permission, or provided there is no copyright infringement. DLIST retains the rights to store the submitted work of authorship electronically, to preserve it in perpetuity (including document format conversion and media migration as needed), and to make it permanently and publicly available online without charge. Following ALA trends, DLIST supports the development of core competencies for information professionals, while at the same time encouraging the submission of new topics--given that new interests may be initiated through innovative materials.

Types of materials

When submitting a document, the authors or the registered users need to consider the suitability of subject, style, format, and professional judgment. The responsibility for the quality and the observance of copyright laws for all submitted documents lies with the submitting user.

Due to its large intended audience, DLIST accepts documents at all levels: comprehensive, research, study, and the most basic. The documents submitted to DLIST may be as follows:

• traditional scholarly products of research
  • articles
  • journals
  • conference proceedings
  • conference papers
  • conference posters
  • preprints
  • presentations
• teaching materials
  • Ask-An-Expert
  • assessments
  • online textbooks
  • projects
  • data
  • reference sources
  • syllabi
  • tutorials
  • books and books chapters
• learning objects
  • interactive presentations
• bibliographic instruction materials
• pathfinders and bibliographies
• library instructional materials
• guides
• others
  • reports
  • technical reports
  • departmental reports
  • thesis
  • newspaper/magazine articles

DLIST accepts materials in formats such as HTML, PDF, text, worksheets, slides, digital video and audio recordings, rich text format, ASCII, and postscripts. Any updated or revised documents will be accepted, and cross-references will link to the original document.

The documents within DLIST will be classified in accordance with the specific DLIST classification scheme. See Cataloging internship.

Limitations

• Currently, DLIST accepts only documents in English.
• Deposited documents should work on all computer platforms and their use should be free of any technical concerns, such as a requirement to download plugs-in.
• Documents may be submitted to DLIST only if the permission from the copyright owners is granted or provided that there is no copyright infringement.

Collection Evaluation and Assessment

The DLIST collection needs continuous re-evaluation in order to assure that it is fulfilling its mission. Statistical tools such as access reports, submitting rate, geographical dispersion of both registered users and patrons are studied to determine how the collection is being used. Through continual oversight, the DLIST staff maintains the collection within its defined goals, evaluates submitted documents, checks for broken links, and retains the rights to move documents between subject headings found as more appropriate, or to remove documents that are not related to the LIS and IT fields. In order to assure the uniform development of all the subjects, DLIST staff uses as collection development strategies the targeted solicitation of individuals, mailing list announcements, presentations, and institutional partnerships.